Meanwhile, on Apple’s Other App Stores… ⇥ apple.com

Compare and contrast Graham Spencer’s five-year Mac App Store retrospective with the numbers in this press release:

In the two weeks ending January 3, customers spent over $1.1 billion on apps and in-app purchases, setting back-to-back weekly records for traffic and purchases. January 1, 2016 marked the biggest day in App Store history with customers spending over $144 million. It broke the previous single-day record set just a week earlier on Christmas Day.

“The App Store had a holiday season for the record books. We are excited that our customers downloaded and enjoyed so many incredible apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple TV, spending over $20 billion on the App Store last year alone,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing.

That works out to over $14 billion paid to developers in the last year alone. Wild. That’s a collective number; I’d be very interested in seeing a breakdown by product.